Community Quote by Robert H. Frank Download Open image “No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.” — Robert H. Frank ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Decent Government Politics Success
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves. — Henry Campbell-Bannerman Copy Share Image
A good government remains a greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. — Dean Inge Copy Share Image
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France. — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
When people bump up against one another in the course of pursuing their goals, it is in everyone's interest to resolve any resulting problems… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than enough to… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation. — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve the common… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Trusting others puts us at risk. Yet failure to trust entails risk as well. The ability to navigate through this minefield successfully is one… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Rising inequality hasn't really accomplished anything of value for its ostensible beneficiaries, the top one percent. They've all built bigger mansions and staged more… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids. — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
When the rich build bigger, they shift the frame of reference that shapes the demands of the near rich, who travel in the same… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image